Carburetor



D. BERTHELOT ET AL CARBURETOR Filed Sept. 16 1919 DANIEL BERTHELOT AND HENRI GUILBAUD, 0E PARIS, FRANCE.

CARBUEETOR.

Application filed September 16, 1919. SerialNc. 324,093.

To all whom it may concern:

Bait known that we, DANIEL BnR'rHnLo'r Gurpnliumcitizens of the Republie of Trance, residing at Paris and Meudon,

Seine et Oise, both in the Republic of France, respectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in and Relating to Carburetors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in carburetors for gasoleneor light hydrocarbons, which yields an automatic discharge of liquid proportional to the volume of air aspirated'by the engine, at all engine speeds.

In the accompanying drawing a longitudinal section of the improved carburetor,

' which forms the object of the invention,

is illustrated, arranged with aview to its application to explosion or internal combustion motors..

This apparatus comprises a hollow stem 1, having at one of its ends a nozzle 2, perforated with a hole 3 of predetermined size the other endl bein in communication with the atmosphere. he hollow stem 1., is screwed inside a sleeve 5, provided at its top end with a plug-6. By screwing up, or unscrewing the lug 6, the plu is approached to or removed from the nozzle. I The stem 1 is formed so as to leave between it and the inner wall of the sleeve 5,

a/n annular space 7 extending to the et 2.

a The part 6 is cylindrically recesse and - has a piece 6 intended to forma variable theexpansion chamber.

mixing chamber sliding .in it. I The piece 6? is bored with a cylindrical 'hole 26 of predetermined length and diameter, coaxial with the hole 3, which hole places the chamber 5, the so-called mixing chamber, in communication with another chamber 27, havinglrecessed walls known as he external wall of the piece 6 has a circular groove adapted to receive the end of one or more screws 28 firmly connecting it with a part A forming a movable choke tube.

I. vThe Venturi tube A slides with slight friction in the body B of the carburetor, its course is limited at its two extreme points by a screw 22 which it carries and which slides in a groove 23 formed in the body 13.

The Venturi tube A is further provided with a tongue 21 automatically obstructing at one point of its course a pipe or pas- 7 with a pipe 10 communicating with a reser-.

voir I) kept at a constant level by means of a float E and having an ordinary filter F, and also with a pipe 10 communicatin 1 with a small tube K similar to the principa jet, serving for starting and also torslow running. c 16 indicates an ordinary throttle valve,

The float E is adjusted so as to maintain a constant predetermined level ofthe, liquid in the annular space 7, and in the space 7.} of the tube K. r v 3 The starting and slow running arrange ment K has the same parts; it is at all points: similar to the rincipal jet arrangement but: is of smaller dimensions. self a small carburetor. The piece 6 of the jet arrangement K, forming the variable mixture chamber, is screwed to the lower end of a recess 11- which slides with slight friction in a sleeve 12 cast on the body B of the carburetor. In=the lower part of the said socket ports 13, adapt-1 ed to be regulated by means of suitablev ring 14:, ensure a suitable air admission. In its upper part, the socket 11 is perforated with two holes 15, which communicate, as desired, by the operation of a bell crank lever F, acting on a rod 19, and compressing a sprin 20 with the slow runnin vortyll g 1 2: l v

at the win of the throttle 16, or with a pipe 18 called the starting pipe, for connection if desired to the upper part of the inlet manifold. 4

Considering the carburetor as mount-ed other end of the pipe with the part of the inlet manifold which is nearest to the cylinders By depressing at the moment of starting, the bell crank F through the intermediary of a rod or cable within reach of the driver, the rod, 19 is lowered compressing It constitutes -it.;- .7

' suction of the liquid, and

the spring 20, and brings the ports 1.5 of the sleeve 11 opposite the pipe 18; the part 6 sl'iaring in the same movement diminishes the capacity ot the mixing chamber :25 of the arrangement K, a position correspondin to the maximum aspiration of the liquid (rawn in under the action of'the do pression of the pistons in the pipe 18,. by a-i" at atmospheric ress'ure entering through the port 4 of the liollow spindle 1 passing at high speed through the hole 3% Any additional air admission through the ports 13 is regulated once for all by means of a rin' 14. The foregoing system ensures in)- me iate starting oven with diilicult starting engines.

After the first explosions, the control F is released and thespring 20 causes the sleeve 11 to rise automatically to its initial point, thus placing the ports 15 opposite the slow running passage 17. The piece 6 operated by the same movement, increases 7 the capacity of the mixing chamber 25 the position corresponding to the minimum ensuring a pertoot retardation.

Atmospheric air passes, on the one hand, through. the annular space left free between the base of the diffuser and the part 6 after having penetrated into the apparatus passing round the arm or arms 8.11mi on the other hand througlrthe port 4 of the hollow spindle 1. The. air passing through this hollow spindle flows with great speed through the hole 3, carrying the liquid from the annular space 7, through the nozzle 2, into the mixing chamber 25. This mixture violently ejected through the hole 26 emerges into the expansion chamber 27in the form of a very finely atomized vapour in order to be intimately mixed with the air admitted directly into the diffuser at a predetermined distance from the base of the latter: By increasing the opening of the throttle 16, the depression increasing with the speed of the motor, the choke tube A. is lifted, carrying with it, owing to the screw'28, the piecefi thus increasing the height of the mixing chamber 25.

In reality the discharge of liquid may be varied on two systems 1. Without changin the height of the mixing chamber by ma inn; the nozzle aperture gradually smaller relative to that in misses nozzle and the expansion chamber respec-' tively to obtain, at least to a certain exient, such a course as may be desired for the expansion chamber; the two extreme positions in the course, corresponding res 'iectiYeIy to the maximum discharge and the minimum discharge which it is desired to give the apparatus. .These two systems of varying the discharge thus supplement one another \"ery well.

It must be pointed out that the tongue 21 carried by the dili'user Ais arrangedin such a way that at a pre-determined speed of the motor, the'tongue closes the pipe 17 ot' the retarding ari-angement,-tlins: automatically isolating it from the action of the depression.

We declare that what we claim is 2-- in a carburetor for an internal combustion engine a fuel nozzle comprisin an outer luel pipe, an inner air pipe, a ho low plug closing the end of the fuel pipe to leave an annular tuel spraying orifice, a hollow mouth-piecev forming with the said plug and said inner pipe a mixing chamher, and means to-vary the volume of the said mixing chamber, and a Venturi tube surrounding said mouth-piece and displaceable according to engine suction and means to connect said Venturi tube with said mouthpiece. a

In witness whereof, we have hereunto signed our names this 25th day of August, 1919, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' DANIEL BERTI-IELOT. HENRI (il llillfi'l ll, Witnesses: V

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